Tudor Rickards PhD (born 1941 in Pontypridd, Wales) is an author on creativity and leadership in business and management. He is based at Manchester Business School in the UK, where he is Professor of Creativity and Organizational Change.[1] Rickards is an influential figure in the study and application of creativity, particularly in Europe.
By the mid-70s he had established international contacts. A collaboration with Horst Geschka at the Battelle Institute in Frankfurt, Germany, lead to a joint publication comparing practices and deficiencies in the application of creativity techniques in the UK and in Germany. Furthermore he participated in most of the European creativity conferences as a speaker or active participant. During this time he intensively worked on the development of networks enabling European creativity practitioners to work together and explore alternatives to the dominant US models.[2][3]
He co-founded the academic journal, Creativity and Innovation Management, in 1991[4] and is Alex Osborn Visiting Professor at State University of New York, Buffalo, a lifetime position offered to scholars who are deemed to enrich teaching at the University’s Centre for Studies in Creativity.[5]
Rickards is regularly quoted in the British media.[6][7][8][9] He is a pioneer and advocate of the ‘Manchester Method’ – the system of creative and applied learning championed by Manchester Business School – on which he has written widely.[10][11][12]
He was an early promoter in Europe of the TRIZ system of creativity and idea generation, inviting TRIZ pioneer Dr Phan Dung to speak at EACI (European Association of Creativity and Innovation) conferences[13] and publishing some of the first papers in English by Dr Phan Dung on the subject in Creativity and Innovation Management.[14]
Challenging traditional models of creative thinking, leadership, problem solving and team building, Rickards’ research has been described by The Financial Times as non-traditional[15]. The influences and inspirations for his insights and research are diverse, and include chess, poetry, sport and politics. The world of nature has also been a powerful source of inspiration, with well-publicised work on intelligent horsemanship[16][16] and the lessons it offers for the workplace, and profiling management and leadership styles using animal behaviour.[17] His work has been criticised for attempting to learn lessons from studying animal rather than human behaviour.[17]
Rickards was educated at Pontypridd Boys’ Grammar School and went on to study chemistry and radiation chemistry at The University of Wales at Cardiff (now Cardiff University). Following post-doctoral research at New York Medical College[18][19] in the 1960s, he returned to the UK to work in the R&D department of Unilever Laboratories[20], based in Port Sunlight, Merseyside, UK.[21] It was there that he became interested in creativity and its role in structured problem-solving systems, and from there that he joined Manchester Business School in 1972.[22][23]
Bibliography
- Rickards, Tudor (1974). Problem Solving Through Creativity. Wiley. pp. 198. ISBN 047072045X.
- Rickards, Tudor (1997). Creativity and Problem Solving at Work. Gower Publishing, Ltd. pp. 240. ISBN 0566079615.
- Rickards, Tudor; Clark, M (2006). Dilemmas of Leadership. Routledge. pp. 252. ISBN 0415355842. http://www.routledge.com/textbooks/0415355850/about/default.asp.
- Rickards, Tudor; Runco, Mark A. , Moger, Susan (2008). The Routledge Companion To Creativity. Routledge. pp. 400. ISBN 978-0-415-77317-1. http://www.routledge.com/books/The-Routledge-Companion-To-Creativity-isbn9780415773171.
References
- ^ http://www.manchester.ac.uk/research/mbs/tudor.rickards/
- ^ Gryskiewicz, S., (1992) Letter from America (With respectful acknowledgement to Alistair Cooke), Creativity and Innovation Management, 1,4, 214-215
- ^ Van de Meer, H., (2006) Conference Report ECCI-9 Creativity and Innovation Management 15,1, 120-122 [DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8691.2006.00376.x, US: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8691.2006.00376.x
- ^ http://www.wiley.com/bw/editors.asp?ref=0963-1690&site=1 With Susan Moger
- ^ http://www.visions-digital.com/visions/200809/?pg=21
- ^ http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/business/s/143/143758_studying_law_of_nature_in_the_office.html
- ^ http://www.guardian.co.uk/guardian_jobs_and_money/story/0,3605,0145526,00.html
- ^ http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4358255,00.html
- ^ http://www.iht.com/articles/2001/04/07/mold_ed3_.php
- ^ http://www.independent.co.uk/student/postgraduate/mbas-guide/horses-for-mba-courses-544429.html
- ^ http://www.ejel.org/volume-2/vol2-issue1/issue1-art23-drinkwater.pdf
- ^ See also p xviii in Educating Managers Through Real World Projects by Charles Wankel, Bob DeFillippi, Robert Defillipi, published by IAP, 2005 ISBN 1593113706 for reference to Rickards' work in this area.
- ^ http://www.eaci.net/EACI_-_European_Association_for_Creativity_%26_Innovation/Home.html
- ^ http://www.osaka-gu.ac.jp/php/nakagawa/TRIZ/eTRIZ/eforum/ePhanDungForum990708.html
- ^ Financial Times, 20th Sept., 1996
- ^ a b http://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/education-news/managers-learn-hollywoodstyle-horse-whispering-703698.html
- ^ a b http://www.independent.co.uk/student/postgraduate/mbas-guide/can-we-learn-from-the-apes-562335.html
- ^ ^ Rickards, T., Herp, A., & Pigman, W., (1966) The kinetics of depolymerization of hyaluronic acid by l-ascorbic acid, and the inhibition of this reaction by anions of the lyotropic series, J of Polymer Science Part A-1 Polymer Chemistry, 5,4. pp 931-934
- ^ www.manchester.ac.uk/research/mbs/Tudor.rickards
- ^ See http://v3.espacenet.com/publicationDetails/biblio?CC=AU&NR=8289775&KC=&FT=E for example of patents applied for while working at Unilever.
- ^ http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/views/obituaries/2008/09/18/obituary-richard-duggan-64375-21844124/
- ^ Alan Pearson, founding editor of http://www.rndmanagement.info/ R&D management journal invited him to join MBS to study creativity techniques in R&D laboratories. The work was subsequently subsumed by the INCA programme (Innovation through Creative Analysis. See Pearson, A., (1989) Twenty-one years of research into the Management of R&D, R&D Management, 19.2 99-102
- ^ J.F. Wilson The Manchester Experiment: A History of Manchester Business School 1965-1990, SAGE Publications Limited, pp92-93
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